D’A 2016 closing film is La propera pell, Isaki Lacuesta’s new movie codirected with Isa Campo and starring Sergi Lopez, Emma Suárez and Àlex Monner. A teenager went missing for six years after losing his memory on an accident. Presumed dead by his family, he returns home which raises doubts on his mother whether he is really the missing boy or an impostor. Flirting with documentary genre, the film hides within a touching chronicle of a helpless puberty.
The Gironian Isaki Lacuesta has directed eight feature films, among them La leyenda del tiempo and Los pasos dobles. He’s a curator of the Catalonia Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennal of Architecture. Isa Campo debuts in directing with La propera pell. She’s a screenwriter, filmmaker, producer and professor of Film Directing at Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona.
